sound, fury, etc.
Upgraded my Ubuntu installation from 6.10 (Edgy Eft) to 7.04 (Feisty Fawn [beta]) today, in the hopes it would clear up a problem I’ve been having with my WiFi card (and out of general boredom). Well the WiFi issue persists, so I’ll have to maybe re-install those drivers, but on the plus side I did get my scanner to work! To celebrate this momentous occasion, here is one of my favorite Scott Pilgrim panels…
Been looking at this 1927 beauty pageant photo (via kottke) for a little while now, and I think I’m going to have to give it to Miss Ohio (top row, 7 to the left of the pole in the middle) with runners up to Miss Chicago and Miss New York. Also, Miss Boardwalk is disqualified on the grounds that she is clearly a man.
I’ve been thinking about it for awhile now, and it is my studied opinion that this is the best rock and roll performance ever captured on film. Anybody care to prove me wrong?
Nikon presents Universcale
The Chocolate Jesus, that is. (And no, that is not the name of a new R. Kelly album… At least as far as I know =)
Those of you with last.fm would do well to check out this page. It parses your listening history against upcoming concerts and builds you a calendar of when your favorite bands are playing your town. (Those of you who don’t have last.fm, get with it already, willya?!)
This seems like a pretty common sense move on last.fm’s part, but just the fact that it’s online and actually works properly makes me excited. It’s just a tiny taste of the AI-enhanced future we have to look forward to. (Assuming some asshole doesn’t blow up the world first =P)
If you want to get deeper hit of the day after tomorrow then you could also try subscribing to the iCal feed that last.fm auto-generates for your recommended events (Here’s mine) and you’ll soon find stuff you’d like to see showing up in your calendar. Who put it there? You did. You just didn’t have to actually “do” it, y’know? Rad…
Anyway, just to temper the breathless enthusiasm of all this, I wanted to throw down a couple links that probe the deeper issues at play in the user data monetization game:
The gist of it is, while all this passively collected user data parsing is super cool and everything, it’s also incredibly valuable. Just by browsing the web and searching Google, you are generating a mountain of data that people are willing to spend billions and billions of dollars to get access to. Google AdWords and the like are barely even the tip of the iceberg compared to what’s going to be possible in this field over the next several years. Should be exciting! I’ll leave you with a song:
Nice… Somebody posted a zip of Geto Boys 1991 “We Can’t Be Stopped” record, which contains (among other awesome tracks):
Been looking for a good quality of this track for forever. Enjoy!
Several 7-11s will be “remade” as Kwik-E-Marts to promote the Simpsons Movie. Things I’ll wager dollars to doughnuts will not be available therein:
So really… What’s the point? Oh.. *and* they’re not even renaming the Slurpees to Squishees! (Much less offering an “all-syrup” version)
Worst. Cross-promotional-branding-tie-in-synergy-stragegy. Ever.
Can’t tell…
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